Volunteers Fighting Disease (song)

Volunteers Fighting Disease
General Information
Name	Volunteers Fighting Disease
Source	The Hostile Hospital Netflix Adaptation: The Hostile Hospital: Part One, The Hostile Hospital: Part Two
Background Information
Composers	Jim Dooley (Netflix)
Performers	John Bobek Lauren McGibbon Arielle Tuliao Ashley Ross Myles MJ McCarthy Cynthia Mendez Troy Adamson Kari Grunberg Sarah Hayward Xavier De Salaberry
Associated With	The Hostile Hospital
Song Order
Previous	Keep Chasing Your Schemes
Next	Welcome To The House Of Freaks
Audio
Song

"Volunteers Fighting Disease" is the song sung by the Volunteers Fighting Disease in The Hostile Hospital.

Lyrics

At Heimlich Hospital, the volunteers go from room to room, handing out pink, heart-shaped balloons to sick patients with the belief that their cheerful attitudes can heal the sick. Led by the bearded man and his guitar, they sing the following song:

We are Volunteers Fighting Disease

And we're cheerful all day long

If someone said that we were sad

That person would be wrong

We visit people who are sick

And try to make them smile

Even if their noses bleed

Or if they cough up bile

Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee

Hope you get well soon

Ho ho ho, hee hee hee

Have a heart-shaped balloon

We visit people who are ill

And try to make them laugh

Even when the doctor says

He must saw them in half

We sing and sing all night and day

And then we sing some more

We sing to boys with broken bones

And girls whose throats are sore

Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee

Hope you get well soon

Ho ho ho, hee hee hee

Have a heart-shaped balloon

We sing to men with measles

And to women with the flu

And if you breathe in deadly germs

We'll probably sing to you

Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee

Hope you get well soon

Ho ho ho, hee hee hee

Have a heart-shaped balloon

Netflix Additional Lyrics

Some additional lyrics are added in the Netflix adaptation.

When Klaus takes a balloon:

We visit patients in their beds

And get them to cheer up

Even when they donate blood

Or pee into a cup

While visiting patients:

We visit victims everywhere

And try to calm them down

Even when their raw red throats

Make their faces frown

We sing and sing and sing and sing

You cannot turn us off

The cheerful lyrics work like pills

And might improve your cough

We visit people with bad mouths

Whose tongues swell up with sores

Our songs bring lots of sunshine in

Although they're stuck indoors

We visit folks with leprosy

And sing them songs as such

We're careful not to touch them, though

Or breathe in very much

While in a hallway:

We sing while walking down the hall

And then consult our list

To see the name of anyone

Who just might have a cyst

While the hospital is burning:

The hospital is burning down

It really is a shame

And the worst part is

The Baudelaires are totally to blame

The hospital is burning down

and soon it will be ashes

All the patients have to leave

Even those with rashes

Trivia

• John Bobek, the Bearded Man in the Netflix series, uploaded a video of how to play the song onto YouTube.

Appearances

Books
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Books)
1. The Bad Beginning (1999):	Absent	7. The Vile Village (2001):	Absent
2. The Reptile Room (1999):	Absent	8. The Hostile Hospital (2001):	Debut
3. The Wide Window (2000):	Absent	9. The Carnivorous Carnival (2002):	Absent
4. The Miserable Mill (2000):	Absent	10. The Slippery Slope (2003):	Absent
5. The Austere Academy (2000):	Absent	11. The Grim Grotto (2004):	Absent
6. The Ersatz Elevator (2001):	Absent	12. The Penultimate Peril (2005):	Absent
13. The End (2006):		Absent
All the Wrong Questions
Who Could That Be at This Hour? (2012):	Absent	Shouldn't You Be in School? (2014):	Absent
When Did You See Her Last? (2013):	Absent	Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (2015):	Absent
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (2014):		Absent
Snicketverse
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002):		Absent
The Dismal Dinner (2004):		Absent
The Beatrice Letters (2006):		Absent
29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy (2014):		Absent
The Hero of the Story (2017):		Absent
Poison for Breakfast (2021):		Absent
Other Snicket Books
The Baby in the Manger (2002):		Absent
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (2007):		Absent
The Lump of Coal (2008):		Absent
The Composer Is Dead (2009):		Absent
13 Words (2010):		Absent
The Dark (2013):		Absent
Goldfish Ghost (2017):		Absent

Gallery

John Bobek - Volunteers Fighting Disease Song (from A Series Of Unfortunate Events S2)

John Bobek showing how to play.

ASOUE 207 Volunteer Song Demos by Jim Dooley

Song Demos by Jim Dooley.

VFD (Volunteers Fighting Disease) song A Series of Unfortunate Events Season 2 Netflix

Opening Song.

Volunteers Fighting Disease - A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Fire verse.